Motörhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister was a masterful musician, but until now there was one unknown talent he had that made his work truly impressive.
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Ozzy Osbourne was recently interviewed by BBC Radio where he called Lemmy “my rock god.”
“Lemmy was a guy – he shot from the hip every time.”
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Ozzy spoke glowingly about Lemmy’s ability to assist with writing lyrics. "I'm good at starting lyrics, but I can't finish them. And he'd go – he'd write a bunch of lyrics for my songs – 'Mama, I'm Coming Home,’” Osbourne said.
"So, I'd give him a tape, and I had this book on World War II. I haven't read it and I told him, 'Tell me what you think. And I have a bunch of these lyrics – whenever you can…' I'm thinking, it's gonna be a week.”
Ozzy continued: “And he says, 'Come back in about four hours.' So I got back, and he goes, 'What do you think about these?' And I go, 'Oh, great.' He then goes, 'What about these?' I go, 'Oh, you got two…?' He goes, 'No, I got another one – three.' I go, 'You had written three sets of lyrics?!' He said, 'Yeah, and that book was crap!' I said, 'What book?' He says, 'The book you gave me.”
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"He was a speed-reader! He could read really fast. He was amazing!” Ozzy concluded.
Ozzy admitted that Lemmy’s appearance didn’t give off the impression that he’d be a great reader, but he did say the Motörhead bassist “was very well-educated."
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